UK police compile list of girls at risk of joining ISIS

A handout CCTV picture received from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on February 23, 2015 shows (L-R) British teenagers Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum walking with luggage at Gatwick Airport, south of London, on February 17, 2015 (AFP Photo / Metropolitan Police) / AFP

British police have compiled a dossier of “intelligence” on a group of teenage girls from London thought to be at risk of traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), a judge has heard.

Justice Hayden was told
by lawyers that UK police had set up a 39-page “running
log” after social workers warned that a handful of girls
wanted to travel to IS-held territory, according to the Press
Association.

The judge declared a number of the at-risk teenagers wards of
court, which bans them from traveling abroad without a judge's
permission.

The revelation about the police dossier came at a hearing in the
Family Division of the High Court in London, where cases relating
to a number of teenagers thought to be at risk of traveling to
IS-controlled areas were being analyzed. The judge was told the
dossier included several pages of intelligence on individual
girls.

In mid-February Kadiza Sultana, 16, Shamima Begum, 15, and Amira
Abase, 15, fled from their homes in east London and managed to
board a flight to Istanbul, from where they are thought to have
traveled to Syria overland.

After the girls’ disappearance in
February, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that all
teenagers boarding flights to Turkey could be challenged by
airlines about why they are traveling alone and if they plan to
join the IS.